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Tiny ritual axe (emphasis on ritual), Tibet, ~17th century AD

Warming unlocks ancient carbon in Tibetan permafrost, triggering climate tipping point The results revealed a clear and troubling pattern across all warming levels. Even under low to moderate warming, #carbon losses through respiration outpaced photosynthetic carbon gains by 1–16-fold. Warming by +1°C, +2°C, and +4°C increased annual net #CO2 release by 44%, 80%, and 176%, respectively, and the site was a net carbon source before any experimental warming began. "When warming reaches around 2–4°C, the system changes fundamentally," Ding told Phys.org. "Plants begin to reach their thermal and water-stress limits, so photosynthesis declines. At the same time, thaw penetrates deeper into the #soil, exposing old #permafrost carbon that has been frozen and protected for hundreds to thousands of years. Once thawed, microbes can decompose it and release it as CO2." https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ancient-carbon-tibetan-permafrost-triggering.html #TippingPoint #Tibet #Himalaya #Uhhps

Buddhist idol, gilded copper alloy, Tibet or Mongolia, 17th century AD

Khedrup Gyatso or མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, the 11th Dalai Lama, died OTD in 1856 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/japan/shinto-buddhism/buddhism.html?s=mb #travel #Buddhism #Tibet

Khedrup Gyatso or མཁས་གྲུབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ་, the 11th Dalai Lama, died OTD in 1856 https://toilet-guru.com/buddhist.html?s=mb #travel #Buddhism #Tibet